Production Supervisor

Special Products & Manufacturing, an award-winning company with over 60 years of success, is seeking a Production Supervisor to join our team in Rockwall, TX.

Do you have a strong background in leading people? Are you a process driven, detail-oriented person with a strong character and sense of urgency who demonstrates superior time management, organizational, leadership and problem-solving skills? Do you like a fast-paced environment where accuracy, quality focus, and follow-through are a must? Then this is the job for you!

If you have at least 3-5 years of production supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment, you owe it to yourself to check out this opportunity!

Why You Should Join Our Team:

• Comprehensive Benefits:
  At SPM, employees enjoy a robust benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plans, wellness programs, and paid time off. Our focus on well-being helps you maintain a healthy work-life balance while thriving in your career.
• Company stability and growth: Founded in 1963, SPM has more than 60 years of proven success. We continue to grow and innovate, offering employees the chance to be part of a stable, forward-thinking organization.
• Work for an award-winning company: SPM was recently named Fabricator of the Year (2025) by The Fabricator, a major industry publication. This kind of recognition reflects a company known for quality, innovation, and best practices, and makes it a proud place to work
• Strategic Visibility & Organizational Impact: Serve in a high-impact purchasing role with executive visibility, influencing leadership decisions through market intelligence, forecasting, and cost modeling while partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Finance to drive value engineering and manufacturability improvements.

Position Overview:

As our Production Supervisor, you will spearhead initiatives to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and elevate overall performance. Responsible for safe and efficient operations of a plant operation including the quality and efficiency of the product produced. This position is to lead a production shift of skilled production operators to ensure products are being produced to specifications, in a safe manner while meeting quality and safety targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide creative leadership and direction to employees to improve operating efficiencies, equipment performance, ensure safety, quality, and productivity.
• Manage production through understanding of procedures, processes, equipment and product
• Promote safe working habits and maintain good housekeeping 5S to ensure a safe and clean working environment for all employees.
• Recommend and implement action plans to correct deviations noted during daily work, internal or external audits.
• Achieve results by establishing priorities, communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, appraising job results, coaching, counseling, disciplining employees, initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, or procedures.
• Maintain the quality of staff by hiring, training, developing, and mentoring employees to ensure maximum performance.
• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other reports to determine production requirements.
• Complete administration duties that include time and attendance system, holiday/vacation planning, production reports, back-order reviews, past due list, and safety violations/concerns.
• Balance and report quality, productivity, costs, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas. Works to improve in all areas.
• Manage employees by checking products to maintain a high standard of quality and quantity. Ensure compliance of technical procedures.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing, with 2+ years of team lead/supervisory experience.
• Experience in sheet metal manufacturing is required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to work with cross functional teams
• Process oriented thinker:
  Focus on both the process and result. Believe the right process will bring the right results.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and work with urgency
• Strong leadership qualities
• Organizational and time management skills
• Working Knowledge of lean process preferred.
• Positive attitude and action oriented.
• Must be willing to work a flexible schedule.
• English required, bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.

About the Company:

Special Products & Mfg., Inc. (SPM) is a precision sheet metal fabrication and contract manufacturing company headquartered in Rockwall, Texas, with additional facilities in the region, serving OEMs across a wide range of industries. With more than 60 years of manufacturing experience, the company provides comprehensive in-house capabilities including laser cutting, CNC machining, metal forming, welding, powder coating, and electro-mechanical assembly.

Supported by ISO 9001:2015 certification, advanced automation, and lean manufacturing practices, SPM…